WeakAuras Strings

This page contains links and descriptions of the most up-to-date versions of my WeakAuras strings for each of my characters. WordPress is finicky about text boxes containing large strings, so all of my Auras are hosted at Pastebin.

Note that I’m using WeakAuras 2, which is the most up-to-date version. I can’t guarantee backwards-compatibility with the original WeakAuras mod, though for the most part I think they’ll still work. Also note that if you’re not using the English client, you may need to tweak some spell names for these to work.

Here are direct links to the WeakAuras strings used in my tanking UI as of patch 6.0.2:

I have an exhaustive list of addons I’m using to create this UI in the UI Customization and Key Bindings post. That post is a little old, but I haven’t changed it much since then so it’s still mostly accurate.

All of my WeakAuras groups can be found by browsing my Pastebin account:

If all you want is the cooldowns row of the setup, then no. If you want the part that shows the rotational abilities, you’ll want to install the “Priority Row” auras as well. And of course, you may want to customize them to your liking.

I always scan the Weakauras to try and understand what exactly each icon is monitoring. For icons that display when an ability is available, I noticed you use a trigger of “Cooldown Progress (Spell) and Inverse”. Is there a reason this is better than simply using “Action Available”?

Action available also checks if the GCD is active. So if I used Action Available, all of the icons would disappear as soon as I cast something, and then pop up again when the GCD is up. That makes it very difficult to plan your next cast, as you’d essentially be playing whack-a-mole every time the GCD ended.

Disclaimer: that’s how the trigger worked the first time I made these auras, which was 2+ years ago now. It’s possible the trigger works differently now, but I haven’t tested it.

thank you for your work, but unfortenately the link http://pastebin.com/b3jTPGBC gives me only the vengeance weak aura string and not the other ones. Could you please post a link to Theck – Prot – Priority Row
Theck – Prot – Cooldowns Row ?

thanks a lot for the great weak aura strings. I use them mainly for my protection paladin, but I try the priest strings and currently facing a problem with the disc ones. WA prompts the message “Error decompressing: Unknown compression method (214)”.
Can you check that, please?

Someone turned me on to Weakauras. I have since stumbled onto your scripts. I have WA2 and on the tutorial page it says its version 1.4. I’ve copied 2 of your scripts from pastebin, http://pastebin.com/1udSzgc0 , http://pastebin.com/6TQ9K6vf and pasted them in the import section. I get an error, “Error decompressing: Unknown copression method (53)” . Do you know what this is or am I doing something wrong?

It’s not possible to post my whole UI. It’s a patchwork of a bunch of different addons, and I don’t think they all have easily-importable settings. To get the basic structure though, you’d only need Bartender, WeakAuras, SUF, and Raven. The rest is pretty much optional.
This post has a complete list of the addons in my UI.http://www.sacredduty.net/2012/11/09/ui-construction-and-key-bindings/

Hey Theck, I don’t know how easy this would be, but i got to thinking. When using EF, essentially what we really care about is the overall size of the heal, BoG stacks, HoPo, and ap–>sp all taken in to account. As it stands your text indicator shows what HoPo, BoG, and AP we were at, at the cast time of EF. But is there anyway to generalize it in to one number, ignoring haste, that checks the current EF size and compares it to the size of a new EF if we casted it now, all modifiers taken in to account, and gives us a red or green value to indicate better or worse. As it is now, more AP but less BoG stacks could be better or worse depending on change. One number would also be easier to look at and take up less space.

Just a thought, i was looking into your code and trying to figure out how to do it myself but couldn’t figure it out.

Hello Theck, tyvm for the information you share with us. I’m new into weakauras so it might be my fault but even qhen RF is on, i still get the icon on the screen (it doesn’t happen with the icon of SoR). Also, ive notices that in your video you have a counter for the number of stacks of Bastion of Glory and the icon for Weakened Blows won’t stop jumping. Any idea of what could go wrong? Thak you for your reply.

Not sure offhand. The stack counter for Bastion of Glory should just appear as part of the “Paladin – Protection – Cooldowns” aura set. At this point the Weakened Blows aura can probably just be removed since Crusader Strike applies it, so you can turn that one off. I don’t know why the Righteous Fury one would stop working though.

Are you using an English client? If not, you may need to replace the English name of the spell with whatever localization you’re using.

There’s no way to export or import a Raven profile, no. At best you could go mucking around in the SavedVariables file and try to isolate the part you want. I can throw the appropriate SavedVariables file on pastebin if you feel like doign that.

Pherani here, I just want to say the I created a Weak Aura 2 string for showing how much time you have left with the SotR ability to show when you’re mitigating damage. It displays when the buff is activated when in combat.

Your work on WA strings has brought my tanking to the next level. I thank you kindly.

If you could find it in your heart to upload some info on your clcret settings (Screenshots of setting page, maybe a short video of what your ret play looks like, I would be most grateful. I would like to see how you organize the info on screen and benefit from seeing what you have come up with.

I pretty much set it up using the defaults, and use the latest optimized sequence that the EJ thread has come up with. I move it on the screen to the location where my usual WeakAuras are set up, since it serves a similar function. I still use WA for tracking cooldowns and such.

But only “Current Haste” and “Vengeance” seem to work. The other ones do not even show up and if I force them to show, they just dont update (BoG always @ 0…).
Im not an expert with WeakAuras, is there something I am missing ?

Are you also using the Vengeace Bars ( http://pastebin.com/4vuPNm64 ) in addition to the overlays? I’m not sure that would cause a problem since they should be independent of the text indicators and stoplights, but if you install them and it fixes the problem, that gives me some information with which to debug.

Also, make sure you’re using WeakAuras2, not WeakAuras. If you’re not sure, re-download it just to make sure. WA2 has fixed some bugs in the original that could cause the auras to not work correctly.

I installed the Vengeance Bars in addition to the ‘EF suite’. Vengeance bars work perfectly but it does not change the fact that the EF tools do not even show when im in combat, casting EFlames on myself all day long.
Thats being said, when I tried to investigate, I actually noticed that creating custom auras seems doable. I’ll see if I can figure out why it is not working and if I fail… Ill prolly create my own auras.

PS: Never had a chance to tell you but your work is amazing. Being a maintankadin reader for a long time now, I cant stress how useful and interesting all you’ve done have been to me. Thank you.

Okay, I figured it out.
The problem comes from the fact that I am a french faggot who uses his own language in the game ^^
Your entire aurasystem is coded with the names of the spells and I’m pretty sure WeakAuras simply parses the combatlog at some point. So when your auras check for “Eternal Flame” events, they see nothing because, in MY (french) combatlog, it is called “Flamme éternelle”.
I am going to adapt the whole thing to work regardless of localization (using spell/buff iDs). If youre interested in the result, let me know, I’d be proud to contribute.

Yeah, almost all of the function calls use English names. I’m not sure if they can all be replaced with spell ID, but I’m pretty sure UnitBuff calls can, though, which is the bulk of them. Let me know if you succeed.

The “_,_,_,” just means to throw away the first three function returns, since we only need the fourth one (# of stacks).

Youre right. Checking buffs can be done using iDs but it cannot be done with spellcasts without modding WeakAuras itself (or I just dont know how).
I modded all your custom functions to work regardless of localization but the WeakAuras setup is for french (this part is the easier one to change)

If any french (or anyone else, making it work for german or whatever else is quite easy) guy need something like this. Email ooa.valentin@hotmail.fr

Thanks for your Weak Auras 2 strings. I had the same problem as Morgriff for the same reason (french client) and when I was changing a few names, I was wondering if you updated your strings to check if the player is using the Sanctified Wrath talent since it boost incoming heals by 20% (on top of the 20% boosted heal done with the usual Avenging Wrath) ? My question is maybe stupid but it was bugging me.

I honestly can’t remember, but I don’t think I did. I’m on vacation this week though, so I can’t easily check. That said, I’m unlikely to bother updating them any time soon given that this particular issue won’t be relevant in Warlords.

Okay, so these seem to be working great. However, when I use an ability the icon (in the rotation bar) doesn’t grey out, and show the abilities cool down. Did I miss a setting? I used your 5.4 ones before, and they worked great.

As far as I can tell, the cooldown spiral is broken in this version of WeakAuras – it’s not something I changed in the auras themselves. I was seeing the same behavior on beta and on live today. I’ll contact the author and see what’s up.

Hi theck. First off thanks for all you do! I’ve been using Weakauras sice wrath, and I have always been able to show an icon for cooldown progress, starting from the 12 position and moving like a clock the icon gets darker or lighter…. Since playing beta I can not seem to get that to work, and since updating my addons cant seem to get that to work, any ideas?

The cooldown spiral is actually part of OmniCC, which hasn’t been updated for WoD yet. I’d give them a few days, it sounds like it’s a simple fix (I spoke with the WA author, who figured out what was wrong).

Hey Theck! Was having issues with my old strings due to me messing with them too much I am sure, but the new strings I copied this morning that you have posted (thanks for all your hardwork!) do not seem to show the absorb value of Sacred Shield. Is there something I need to do outside of the string to make that show up?
Thanks
Zaidain

The timers with the sliding bar from right to left with the remaining cd is called raven. Thanks! Sometimes i let my sacred shield wear out without refreshing it in time, this might help!

For the trash marking addon i meant an addon that can save a setup from instances where i have marked before. So i dont have to keep marking and marking and marking and marking and marking and marking and marking xD

I’ve noticed the Consecration auras having an issue with the Consecrator Glyph. Any thoughts on this? I tried writing one from scratch, I tried modifying trigger 2 for the glyphed auras you wrote, all to no avail. I’ll keep testing and see if I can come up with something. If I do I’ll post it, and so far, I’ve been unsuccessful. Have a great Thanksgiving man!

Yeah, I meant to get to that last night and didn’t. Consecrator glyph probably works just like the glyph that lets you place consecration – it changes the spellid of Consecration, thus making the auras not work. I need to sit down and write a few new auras and change some conditionals to handle it. I may not get to it today though. Will try to do so by tomorrow.

Is it just me or is there a lack of descriptions? In the video, I see icons that bounce andor flash, but I have no idea what that is telling me. I am not seeing any form of description of what the auras are actually telling me.

Having difficulty getting the Priority icons to work. I’ve imported all 4 strings, but they remain static and lit as I begin a combat rotation. As I use my abilities, the spiral CD animation doesn’t work with any of them. Any ideas?

Hello Theck, thanks for all your great work. I have some issues with getting the string to load in newest version of weakauras2, it says “No data for Thecks-Priority 2 2 2 2″. You know what causes it? Trying to search for others with the same problem didn’t give me shit.

I’m new to this, but your strings won’t load in WA2. It says in the options (under Display)” The children of this group have different display types, so their display options cannot be set as a group”. Can you help with that? Thank you, and I enjoy reading your theory.

Theck, I’ve been looking for a good WA string for my shaman, and unfortunately I’m so accustomed to your Paladin strings that none of the Shaman ones I have found feel right for me. Is there any way that you could make/help me make an enhancement/resto shaman WA string that feels like your Prot Paladin string?

I actually had a skeleton set that I built while I was leveling my shaman (Enh/Ele), but I stopped at around level 75 so they aren’t complete. But it should be easy enough to take one of the sets, import it, and change spell names and triggers and such. On the other hand, you might be better off building it from scratch since it’ll suit your needs better that way.

If you highlight a given aura, the “Display” tab on the right hand side of the interface has most of the controls you need to move and resize that aura. There are some pretty good youtube tutorials for WeakAuras you can consult for more information on how to do more detailed customization.

Hey
I Just started using weakauras2 and imported your strings (which are amazing!). I started fooling around a little to add a few changes I liked and now I’m having a major issue.
I want my trinket to show always but so far I can only get it to show when It’s on CD. I have looked around for guides on how to fix this but it seems the only thing people use is proc trinkets. Do you know if it’s possible to actually see a trinket when it is ready? (The trinket in question is Pol’s Blinded Eye)

Probably not any time soon. I barely have time to play nowadays, and I only usually bother to update a set when I start leveling that class to 100. I think I have updated ones for Frost/Fire mage and Affliction warlock that I could upload, but that’s about it.

Hello. The empowered seals string seems to be bugged, or at least there’s something wrong with it. I’ve imported it but nothing happens. It only shows seal of insight when it’s 5s from depleting, but never shows seal of Liadrin’s buff (haste). What may cause this?

I have a pretty good guess at what’s wrong, but I’ll have to wait until after work this evening to fix it. With the removal of 6.1, they shuffled our seal id numbers, and I probably coded the auras off of that.

Empowered Seals is really only useful on one or two fights in Mythic BRF, like Blackhand. On Kromog you spend a fair amount of time not tanking, so you should get much better survival from HA+Seraphim if you play that combination appropriately.

HS would be good on Flamebinder since it allows you to block the truly dangerous portion of the fight (the add breaths). But Sera+HS should still do more damage, and that may be useful in killing the adds faster.

Not necessarily. A lot of people pop Sera+HA together at the start of the fight for higher DPS. Sera will naturally come off of cooldown right as the SotR uptime from HA ends, so there’s really not much of an advantage to staggering them.

You have more wiggle room with heroic BRF than with mythic, obviously. I pretty much run Sera+HA for all of heroic now.

Simple enough to change this yourself. Just go to the “Sacred Shield 10s” aura (within Theck-Prot-Cooldowns) and go to the “Actions” tab. You can then tell it to Play Sound (in the On Show) section and choose which sound it will play when the icon appears.

Theck, I absolutely love your WA strings for tanking, thank you! I had a question for Retribution spec, though. You said that you use CLC instead of WA for your ret rotation. Is that just a preference, or is CLC superior? If it is just preference I was going to tinker with a copy of the tanking strings to make them suit ret, but I didn’t want to spend the time if CLC does the job better.

It’s mostly preference. I don’t play Ret as often, so I’m not as good with it. Hekili/CLCRet basically do the math for you to figure out what’s optimal to cast, and give you 2-3 icons telling you what’s coming so you can prepare.

Ret is also a lot less situational than prot is. There are times when I want to hold AS or Cons to pick up adds, for example, and an addon like CLCRet/Hekili wouldn’t be able to recognize that. I’ve been irritated with CLCRet before for exactly that reason – it wanted me to cast Execution Sentence even though I was saving it and Avenging Wrath for a burn phase, so all it would show me is ES and I’d lose some of my prediction ability. That would happen a lot more often as prot, which is why I don’t use that sort of addon for prot.

That said, Hekili fixes a lot of those issues by letting you choose how many icons you want. I have it set up to show 3 moves in the future so I can see what’s coming, and to avoid the situation described above. I’m rather pleased with it for Ret.

You will see players claim that you can do better by hand than by following the advice of one of these addons. I don’t believe them, to be honest. If you’re playing that spec for years, with a lot of practice you might be able to follow the basic priority pretty well and cover some of the edge cases. But the SimC action priority list (which Hekili uses) has loads of very situational entries that give minor DPS gains, and it would be hard to accurately reproduce that by hand without lots and lots of practice. I think most people grossly overestimate their own skill in this department.

In any event, do whatever feels comfortable. As Ret I can produce extremely competitive DPS using Hekili, which is probably far better than I could do with a modified version of my own WA setup, simply because Hekili is doing all the complicated math so that I can focus on hitting the right buttons and performing fight mechanics. If you don’t like rotation helpers, then building your own WA setup and practicing is certainly an alternative, but I think that you’ll probably underperform compared to a rotation helper until you’ve built up months and months of practice with the WA setup.

Hello
i want to know if in your tracking of WoG size work with the resolve and the versatility
Because the number shown is different than the heal of WoG
(sorry i’m french, and not an expert in english :s )

Yeah, Righteous Defense closed up shop a long time ago. Unfortunately I haven’t been keeping up with prot paladin bloggers since I quit, so I don’t know who else is still producing this sort of content. Slootbag’s website still has a bunch, but they don’t appear updated for 7.0: